Caller believes it was a gang initiation and were looking to kill his son too.

Caller believes it was a gang initiation and were looking to kill his son too.

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Updated: 5:34 PM CDT Aug 23, 2013

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WEBVTT CAM-FS-SOT-FS JUST IN TONIGHT. A 9-1-1 CALL... MADE MOMENTS AFTER THE KILLING OF CHRIS LANE. THE MAN ON THE OTHER END... IS THE FATHER OF A FRIEND OF THE SUSPECTS. HE SAYS HE FEARED THOSE TEENS WERE TRYING TO KILL HIS SON TOO. TAKE A LISTEN TO HIS CALL. caller: some young kids with some guns and I need them over here quick Dispatcher: 111 West Ash Caller: Yes Dispatcher: are they toy guns or real guns? Caller: my understanding is that they are real guns AND TONIGHT WE'RE ALSO LEARNING THAT SAME FATHER... THINKS THE DEATH OF CHRIS LANE WAS ALL PART OF A GANG INITIATION. KOCO'S DAN THOMAS HAS BEEN FOLLOWING UP AUTHORITIES AND HAS MORE FROM DUNCAN "WITH EVERYDAY THAT PASSES IT SEEMS MORE QUESTIONS ARISE ABOUT THE KILLING OF CHRIS LANE MANY HERE HAVE THEIR OWN THERORIES BUT AT THE DUNCAN POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOTHING ABOUT THE MOTIVE HAS CHANGED." JAMES JOHNSON IS THE FATHER OF A TEEN IN DUNCAN WHO CALLED 911 THE DAY OF THE KILLING, TELLING AUTHORITIES THE SUSPECTS WERE RIGHT OUTSIDE HIS HOME - WITH GUNS - THERE, HE THOUGHT TO KILL HIS SON. 00:01 TO 00:09 JAMES JOHNSON SAID, "I DON'T THINK IT WAS FOR FUN. I DON'T THINK IT WAS AT RANDOM. I THINK IT WAS INITIATION" INITIATION INTO A GANG THAT HE WOULDN'T LET HIS SON JOIN A THEORY THAT SEEMS SUPPORTED BY SEVERAL POSTS TO THIS FACEBOOK PAGE WHERE SUSPECT JAMES EDWARDS IS SEEN HOLDING WEAPONS, WADS OF CASH AND THROWING OUT GANG SIGNS. 4:23 CLIP 1 CHIEF DANNY FORD SAID, "IT GOT THEM ATTENTION. JUST LIKE IT'S GOT THE MEDIA'S ATTENTION." 30 WE SHOWED DUNCAN POLICE CHIEF DANNY FORD WHAT WAS ON THAT PAGE. 5:48 DAN THOMAS ASKED, "WITH HIS HANDS, WHAT IS HE DOING THERE AT THE END?" CLIP 1 CHIEF DANNY FORD SAID, "I CAN'T TELL." DAN THOMAS ASKED, "IS IT, SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT IT'S SOME SORT OF SIGN LANGUAGE OR GANG CODE." 59 CLIP 1 CHIEF DANNY FORD SAID, "OH, I'M NOT SAYING THEY DON'T USE A SYMBOL." FORD SAYS WHILE THEY WERE USING GANG LINGO AND SYMBOLS, THEY WERE NOT IN A GANG BUT RATHER JUST WANNA-BES. 4:11 CLIP 1 CHIEF DANNY FORD SAID, "THEY WERE SELLING THEMSELVES ON BEING THAT WAY AND EVENTUALLY YOU HAVE TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP." 18 DAN THOMAS SAID, "COMING UP AT 6 WE'LL TAKE YOU INSIDE THE APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE THE TEENS WERE WELL KNOWN AND WHERE SOME HAVE SAID THEY LEARNED ABOUT GANG CULTURE. REPORTING IN DUNCAN, DAN THOMAS KOOC 5 NEWS." TONIGHT... A MEMORIAL TO HONOR "CHRIS LANE" IS BEING HELD BY THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN DUNCAN. IT WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE PLAYGROUND OF PLATO ELEMENTARY, AND STARTS AT 7-O'CLOCK.